Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Futures

Bringing together the perspectives of researchers, policy makers, activists, educators and practitioners, this book critically interrogates the Western-centric assumptions underpinning education and development agendas and the colonial legacies of violence they often uphold.

Bringing together the perspectives of researchers, policy makers, activists, educators and practitioners, this book critically interrogates the Western-centric assumptions underpinning education and development agendas and the colonial legacies of violence they often uphold.The book considers the crucial connection between the idea of sustainable futures and the demand to decolonize education. Containing an innovative mixture of text, stories and poetry, it explores how decolonized futures can be conceived and enacted, offering theoretical and practical examples, including from practice in educational and cultural organizations. In doing so, the book highlights education’s potential role in facilitating processes of reparative justice that can contribute to decolonized futures.

Introduction – Yvette Hutchinson, Artemio Arturo Cortez Ochoa, Julia Paulson and Leon TiklyPart 1: Connecting Decolonial and Sustainable Futures in Education1. Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Futures: Some Conceptual Starting Points – Leon Tikly2. Learning To Become With the World: Education for Future Survival – Common Worlds Research Collective3. Knowledge Production, Access and Governance: A Song From the South – Catherine A. Odora HoppersPart 2: Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Futures: From Theory to Practice4. Reimagining Education: Student Movements and the Possibility of a Critical Pedagogy and Feminist Praxis – Tania Saeed5. British Council Dialogues on Decolonization – Yvette Hutchinson6. Decolonizing the University: A Perspective From Bristol – Alvin Birdi7. Decolonizing the Curriculum in English Secondary Schools: Lessons From Teacher-Led Initiatives in Bristol – Terra Glowach, Tanisha Hicks-Beresford and Rafael Mitchell8. Little Voices: Embracing Difference in Bristol Schools Through Engaging Learner Voices – Ben SpencePart 3: Education’s ‘Reparative’ Possibilities: Responsibilities and Reckonings for Sustainable Futures9. Indigenous Education and Activism: Dignity and Repair for Inclusive Futures – Tarcila Rivera Zea10. Learning With the Past: Racism, Education and Reparative Futures – Arathi Sriprakash, David Nally, Kevin Myers and Pedro Ramos-Pinto11. Decolonizing Citational and Quotational Practices as a Reparative Politics – Esther Priyadharshini12. Reparative Pedagogies – Julia PaulsonConclusion – Yvette Hutchinson, Artemio Arturo Cortez Ochoa, Julia Paulson and Leon TiklyAfterword – Robin Shields